{"id":193112,"date":"2025-03-08T06:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-time-to-deal-with-drug-dealers-kawana\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T06:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:52:28","slug":"namibia-time-to-deal-with-drug-dealers-kawana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-time-to-deal-with-drug-dealers-kawana\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Time to Deal With Drug Dealers &#8211; Kawana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>The minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security Albert Kawana says it is time to deal with those dealing drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Kawana made these remarks on Thursday at the inauguration of a police station in the DRC settlement area at Swakopmund in the Erongo region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The police station, valued at N$20.7 million, was built and donated by the R\u00f6ssing Uranium mining company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Kawana pointed out that drug trafficking in Erongo region is on the increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;This trend needs urgent attention by all of us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070303.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security Albert Kawana says it is time to deal with those dealing drugs. Kawana made these remarks on Thursday at the inauguration of a police station in the DRC settlement area at Swakopmund in the Erongo region. The police station, valued at N$20.7 million, was built and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7012,17100,6949,31745,4706,724,257,254,6599],"class_list":["post-193112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-dealers","tag-drug","tag-kawana","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}